MUSIC & CULTURE

Reading & Leeds festival have already announced some unbelievable acts in the form of Metallica and Jamie T and they have gone and done it again with the wave of new headliners they have announced: MUMFORD & SONS as Main Stage headliners! ROYAL BLOOD, BASTILLE, DEADMAU5, REBEL SOUND FEAT. CHASE

The festival season is upon us and here at VIVA we thought we’d give you a little Thursday morning treat by giving you a sneaky preview at Bestival’s first line-up announcement. The line-up features Thursday’s Big Top headliners and Saturday’s main stage headliners as well as a herd of party people spreading

By the personal invitation of Charlie Sheen, UK based contemporary and figurative artist Lincoln Townley will be flying out to LA next month to present him with a bespoke portrait of the American actor who agrees that “Townley has captured the essence of what it is to live with addiction”.

James has announced a tour date as part of the Forest Live concert series. In what will be a ‘home’ forest gig for the band, the final headline act will be performing in Delamere Forest, Cheshire this July. Since forming in Manchester in 1982, James’s enduring creativity and musical legacy

In December 2014, Russell Brand commissioned a portrait by UK artist Lincoln Townley to raise funds for the Abstinence-Based Recovery Trust. The collaboration was a huge success and raised $20,000 in New York. This led Russell to commission a second portrait, which will be auctioned in February on the international online auction artnet.com

The Warehouse Project, Drop The Mustard, Chibuku, Circus, Metropolis, Now Wave, Kaluki, Sounds Of The Near Future & TROF – all unite to create a special series of events at Manchester’s Albert Hall. Launching on this Friday, Manchester’s Albert Hall welcomes Transmission, a new series across four months of events from January into March immaculately programmed shows running until April 2015

Paloma Faith has announced a welcome return to seven spectacular woodland locations this summer as part of Forest Live, the Forestry Commission’s outdoor concert series, having performed to sell-out crowds in 2013. Paloma’s third album ‘A Perfect Contradiction’ was one of the huge success stories of 2014 and her fastest

With the BAFTA’s and National Television Awards quickly approaching, we ask the question have you ever found yourself watching a movie and wondered who could have done the role better? Well, that’s exactly what www.twobigladies.co.uk did when making these hilarious movie mash-up posters. Who knew Alan Carr could pull off a dress

The Prodigy have announced their new album The Day Is My Enemy, which is due for release on March 30th. Their sixth album will feature new track ‘Nasty‘ which is available to download and acts as a taster for the album release, which has 14 tracks. They’ve released five albums previous to this,